Here is a summary of today's events so far:
The Irish deputy prime minister Simon Harris has described the latest reports of mass starvation in Gaza as “an affront to our collective humanity”.
Brazil will intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel’s actions in Gaza at the International Court of Justice, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
Israel’s president Isaac Herzog visited the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and told soldiers that there were “intensive negotiations” about returning the hostages in Gaza, adding that he hopes that they will soon “hear good news”, a statement from the president’s spokesperson reported.
France has said the risk of famine in Gaza is a “result of” Israel’s blockade, in a statement.
An official familiar with ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas said a top adviser to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ron Dermer, was travelling to Rome to meet US special envoy Steve Witkoff on Thursday to discuss the state of the talks.
Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has killed 59,219 Palestinians, mostly civilians, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, which sparked the war, resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.
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Iran has agreed to allow a technical team from the UN nuclear watchdog to visit in the coming weeks to discuss “a new modality” on relations between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Tehran, Iran’s deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on Wednesday.
“The delegation will come to Iran to discuss the modality, not to go to the (nuclear) sites,” he told reporters during a visit to New York.
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